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Have just received spam from:





In the Cc: field there is an alphabetical list of names all with
hyper.net.nz account's, does this mean the spammer has got hold of
hyper.net.nz mailing list? they look like legitamate email address's, if not
off a list where do the spammers get the email address's from?

That spammer was:









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On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 10:58:32 +1300, "Tiddlywink" <tbra at hyper dot
net dot nz> had this to say:

>Have just received spam from:
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>In the Cc: field there is an alphabetical list of names all with
>hyper.net.nz account's, does this mean the spammer has got hold of
>hyper.net.nz mailing list? they look like legitamate email address's, if not
>off a list where do the spammers get the email address's from?
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Nope. Most likely it was a dictionary attack.


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On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 10:58:32 +1300, "Tiddlywink" <tbra at hyper dot
net dot nz> wrote:

>Have just received spam from:
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>In the Cc: field there is an alphabetical list of names all with
>hyper.net.nz account's, does this mean the spammer has got hold of
>hyper.net.nz mailing list? they look like legitamate email address's, if not
>off a list where do the spammers get the email address's from?
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>That spammer was:
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>...deleted....
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The fact that the name was in the Sender header doesn't mean that the
sender was that person. What were the actual headers?

Cheers,

Cliff

> The fact that the name was in the Sender header doesn't mean that the
> sender was that person. What were the actual headers?
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> Cheers,
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> Cliff
Dont know - deleted the email.




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On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 16:26:26 +1300, "Tiddlywink" <tbra at hyper dot
net dot nz> wrote:

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>> The fact that the name was in the Sender header doesn't mean that the
>> sender was that person. What were the actual headers?
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>Dont know - deleted the email.
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Ah Tiddlywink, you may have maligned an innocent person! You need to
*carefully* look at the full headers to tell where an email has
actually been sent from! It is *trivial* to fake the sender address
and most of the other headers!

Cheers,

Cliff